Not only that, in the seventies Mrs Steve taught for years at Ben Jonson primary school in Stepney and I taught just down the road in Poplar, at St Philip Howard secondary school (that one no longer exists). We lived in a council flat in Poplar for several years (in Robin Hood Gardens, now gone, but famous as an example of post-war brutalist architecture, and I understand that a lump of it now resides in the V&A). All human life was there...